Test Analyst Contracts in England

Test Analyst
UK > England

The median Test Analyst daily rate in England is £450 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 302 340 349
Rank change year-on-year +38 +9 +37
Contract jobs requiring a Test Analyst 240 332 530
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.66% 0.68% 0.75%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.71% 0.72% 0.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 176 281 401
10th Percentile £306 £300 £306
25th Percentile £363 £375 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £413
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +15.15% +10.74%
75th Percentile £541 £600 £475
90th Percentile £578 £688 £545
UK median daily rate £446 £450 £405
% change year-on-year -0.89% +11.11% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile £58.00 - £37.90
25th Percentile £58.75 - £42.25
Median hourly rate £61.25 - £49.50
75th Percentile £62.50 - £51.88
90th Percentile - - £53.30
UK median hourly rate £61.25 - £35.00
% change year-on-year - - -6.67%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 33,765 45,858 67,296
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.60% 95.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,417 32,568 47,999
10th Percentile £282 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.14%
75th Percentile £644 £663 £644
90th Percentile £750 £760 £744
UK median daily rate £525 £543 £525
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,442 1,343 1,842
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.27 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.72
Median hourly rate £36.92 £45.00 £23.03
Median % change year-on-year -17.97% +95.42% +5.92%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £64.98
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -18.89% +87.50% +6.67%

Test Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Test Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Test Analyst in England

Test Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Test Analyst in England.

Daily rate trend for Test Analyst in England

Test Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Analyst in England over the 6 months to 19 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Test Analyst in England

Test Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Test Analyst in England.

Hourly rate trend for Test Analyst in England

Test Analyst
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Test Analyst within the England region over the 6 months to 19 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +28 115 £448 -16.74% 8
South East +14 49 £550 +27.17% 5
Midlands +32 33 £363 +3.57% 7
North of England +29 22 £504 +25.88% 8
West Midlands +25 19 £363 -9.38% 3
East Midlands +26 14 £363 +17.89% 4
North West +12 13 £570 +42.50% 5
South West +5 6 £450 +16.13% 3
Yorkshire +16 5 £490 -4.39% 3
East of England +9 5 £313 -2.34% 4
North East +18 4 £415 -
Test Analyst
UK

Test Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 19 May 2024, Test Analyst contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Test Analyst in the job title.

1 102 (42.50%) Agile
2 86 (35.83%) Test Automation
3 61 (25.42%) Security Cleared
4 58 (24.17%) Social Skills
5 55 (22.92%) Test Scripting
6 48 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
6 48 (20.00%) Azure
7 47 (19.58%) DevOps
8 46 (19.17%) Continuous Integration
9 44 (18.33%) Test Management
10 42 (17.50%) Azure DevOps
11 39 (16.25%) Software Testing
11 39 (16.25%) Finance
12 38 (15.83%) Microsoft
12 38 (15.83%) JIRA
12 38 (15.83%) SC Cleared
12 38 (15.83%) Selenium
13 36 (15.00%) QA
13 36 (15.00%) Manual Testing
13 36 (15.00%) ISTQB
14 35 (14.58%) Oracle
15 31 (12.92%) C#
15 31 (12.92%) Performance Testing
16 30 (12.50%) Scenario Testing
17 29 (12.08%) Postman
17 29 (12.08%) Scrum
18 27 (11.25%) Functional Testing
18 27 (11.25%) Test Planning
19 25 (10.42%) TestRail
19 25 (10.42%) Test Strategy

Test Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 9 (3.75%) Confluence
2 3 (1.25%) CMS
3 1 (0.42%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (0.42%) Appian
Applications
1 12 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (1.25%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 11 (4.58%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 9 (3.75%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (1.25%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.83%) Oracle Assets
4 2 (0.83%) Oracle Cash Management
4 2 (0.83%) Oracle Financials
4 2 (0.83%) Oracle General Ledger
4 2 (0.83%) Oracle HRMS
4 2 (0.83%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (0.83%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.42%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.42%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.42%) Oracle Payroll
5 1 (0.42%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 48 (20.00%) Azure
2 42 (17.50%) Azure DevOps
3 10 (4.17%) Entra ID
4 9 (3.75%) AWS
5 5 (2.08%) Dynamics 365
6 4 (1.67%) Power Platform
7 3 (1.25%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (1.25%) BlazeMeter
7 3 (1.25%) BrowserStack
7 3 (1.25%) PowerApps
7 3 (1.25%) Tricentis Tosca
8 2 (0.83%) dbt
8 2 (0.83%) Firebase
8 2 (0.83%) GCP
8 2 (0.83%) SaaS
9 1 (0.42%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (0.42%) Boomi
9 1 (0.42%) FinancialForce
9 1 (0.42%) GitHub
9 1 (0.42%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.83%) MVNO
1 2 (0.83%) SMS
1 2 (0.83%) SNMP
1 2 (0.83%) Software-Defined Radio
1 2 (0.83%) VoWiFi
2 1 (0.42%) DVB
2 1 (0.42%) Firewall
2 1 (0.42%) VoLTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (6.67%) SQL Server
2 8 (3.33%) Oracle Database
3 4 (1.67%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (0.83%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.42%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.42%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.42%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.42%) DB2
5 1 (0.42%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.42%) MySQL
5 1 (0.42%) Oracle BI EE
5 1 (0.42%) Pentaho
5 1 (0.42%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 38 (15.83%) JIRA
1 38 (15.83%) Selenium
2 29 (12.08%) Postman
3 25 (10.42%) TestRail
4 19 (7.92%) WebDriver
5 18 (7.50%) Visual Studio
6 13 (5.42%) SpecFlow
7 9 (3.75%) JMeter
8 7 (2.92%) Appium
8 7 (2.92%) LoadRunner
9 6 (2.50%) SoapUI
9 6 (2.50%) Zephyr
10 4 (1.67%) Cypress.io
10 4 (1.67%) Git
10 4 (1.67%) Jenkins
10 4 (1.67%) Rational Performance Tester
11 3 (1.25%) Bitbucket
11 3 (1.25%) Eclipse
11 3 (1.25%) TestComplete
12 2 (0.83%) Maven
General
1 58 (24.17%) Social Skills
2 39 (16.25%) Finance
3 22 (9.17%) Public Sector
4 21 (8.75%) Back Office
5 13 (5.42%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (4.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (3.75%) Banking
8 8 (3.33%) Telecoms
9 6 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.83%) Billing
10 2 (0.83%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.83%) Legal
10 2 (0.83%) Retail
11 1 (0.42%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.42%) Automotive
11 1 (0.42%) Electronics
11 1 (0.42%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.42%) Local Government
11 1 (0.42%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.42%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (7.08%) .NET
2 12 (5.00%) AngularJS
2 12 (5.00%) XML
3 11 (4.58%) .NET Framework
4 7 (2.92%) Oracle Fusion
5 6 (2.50%) ADO
6 3 (1.25%) CSS
6 3 (1.25%) HTML
6 3 (1.25%) LDAP
6 3 (1.25%) SOAP
7 2 (0.83%) REST
7 2 (0.83%) WebdriverIO
8 1 (0.42%) .NET Core
8 1 (0.42%) Gherkin
8 1 (0.42%) JSON
8 1 (0.42%) Kafka
8 1 (0.42%) Lightning Web Components
8 1 (0.42%) Playwright
8 1 (0.42%) Visualforce
8 1 (0.42%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 18 (7.50%) Mobile App
2 13 (5.42%) Product Ownership
3 7 (2.92%) Management Information System
4 6 (2.50%) Reinsurance
5 3 (1.25%) NHS
6 2 (0.83%) IVR
6 2 (0.83%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.42%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.42%) Contactless
7 1 (0.42%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.42%) DTCC
7 1 (0.42%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.42%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.42%) MPEG
7 1 (0.42%) PKI
7 1 (0.42%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.42%) STB
7 1 (0.42%) Video\Live Streaming
7 1 (0.42%) W3C
7 1 (0.42%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 14 (5.83%) Android
2 5 (2.08%) Linux
3 3 (1.25%) Windows
4 2 (0.83%) Unix
5 1 (0.42%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.42%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (42.50%) Agile
2 86 (35.83%) Test Automation
3 55 (22.92%) Test Scripting
4 48 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
5 47 (19.58%) DevOps
6 46 (19.17%) Continuous Integration
7 44 (18.33%) Test Management
8 39 (16.25%) Software Testing
9 36 (15.00%) Manual Testing
10 31 (12.92%) Performance Testing
11 30 (12.50%) Scenario Testing
12 29 (12.08%) Scrum
13 27 (11.25%) Functional Testing
13 27 (11.25%) Test Planning
14 25 (10.42%) Test Strategy
15 21 (8.75%) Integration Testing
16 20 (8.33%) Non-Functional Testing
17 19 (7.92%) CI/CD
18 18 (7.50%) Defect Management
19 17 (7.08%) End-to-End Testing
Programming Languages
1 31 (12.92%) C#
2 21 (8.75%) SQL
3 15 (6.25%) Java
4 13 (5.42%) Kotlin
5 11 (4.58%) PowerShell
6 9 (3.75%) Python
7 7 (2.92%) JavaScript
8 2 (0.83%) ProC
8 2 (0.83%) Ruby
9 1 (0.42%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.42%) Bicep
9 1 (0.42%) C
9 1 (0.42%) C++
9 1 (0.42%) Perl
9 1 (0.42%) Scala
9 1 (0.42%) SOQL
9 1 (0.42%) VB
9 1 (0.42%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 61 (25.42%) Security Cleared
2 38 (15.83%) SC Cleared
3 36 (15.00%) ISTQB
4 25 (10.42%) DV Cleared
5 24 (10.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 12 (5.00%) Degree
7 5 (2.08%) ISEB
8 2 (0.83%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.42%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (15.00%) QA
2 8 (3.33%) NIST
3 4 (1.67%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.83%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.42%) MiFID
5 1 (0.42%) WCAG
System Software
1 10 (4.17%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.83%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (1.25%) Ansible
2 2 (0.83%) HP Quality Center
3 1 (0.42%) HP ALM
3 1 (0.42%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 38 (15.83%) Microsoft
2 35 (14.58%) Oracle
3 14 (5.83%) SAP
4 10 (4.17%) Salesforce
5 7 (2.92%) HP
6 4 (1.67%) Denodo
6 4 (1.67%) IBM
7 3 (1.25%) Ariba
8 2 (0.83%) Aderant
8 2 (0.83%) Atlassian
8 2 (0.83%) Brio
8 2 (0.83%) Google
8 2 (0.83%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.42%) Dataiku
9 1 (0.42%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.42%) PagerDuty
9 1 (0.42%) Perfecto Mobile
9 1 (0.42%) Splunk
9 1 (0.42%) VMware
9 1 (0.42%) Workday